If there were any doubts about whether Joaquin Phoenix was sincere in his Oscars speech advocating for animal rights, this should clear them up. The Joker star rescued a cow and her baby from the Manning Beef facility in Pico Rivera, Calif., and took them to Farm Sanctuary in Acton, Calif., where they can live together in peace, without threat of being slaughtered. The move came a day after Phoenix spent his time at the podium, while accepting the Best Actor trophy for his turn in Joker, decrying the way humans treat all of the natural world. He specifically cited the plight of cows. “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, then we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable,” Phoenix said. “And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.” Grassroots group Los Angeles Animal Save captured Phoenix’s efforts in a moving, 8-minute video. To read more on this story, click here:Watch Joaquin Phoenix Rescue a Cow and Her Calf After Advocating for Animals in Oscars speech
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On May 24, 2018, Chuck and Deb Beldo welcomed a truly rare phenomenon on their farm in. So rare, in fact, that it only ever happens in one in 11.2 million cases! “I’ve been around cows my whole life, and I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Deb told CBS Local. One of the cows on their farm got pregnant for a third time. Her previous two births were to single healthy calves. To read more on this story, click here:Farmer Thinks Cow Is Pregnant With One Calf But During Labor The Babies Keep Dropping To Ground
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Although she is no longer alive, the 2,000-lb cow was
announced as the new record holder on June 25.
Blosom, who was named by Guinness as the world's tallest
living cow last August, died on a farm in northern Illinois on May 26, after
holding that record for less than a year.
Guinness World Records said that the 13-year-old female
Holstein will “live on in the record books as the world's tallest cow eve”.
The average weight for a mature Holstein cow is 1,500
pounds and 'top producing Holsteins' have been known to produce more than
72,000-lb of milk in a year when milked three times a day, according to
Holstein Association USA.
“The funny thing about Blosom was how unaffected she was by
all the attention that seemed to surround her”, Blosom's owner, Patty
Meads-Hanson, told Guinness World Records following the news of the animal's
latest record.
“As long as she had her oats, daily chin rubs and ear
scratches, life was good.” she said.
Hanson said she is not sure what was wrong with Blosom, but
had to have her put down after two veterinarians said they could not save her.
On Facebook, at the time of Blosom's passing, Hanson later
wrote that the animal had seemed to have slipped in the mud and damaged a
ligament in her hip causing her to never be able to stand.
Hanson said Blosom was buried in her favorite pasture, with
her head facing east toward the farm.
Hanson, who had Blosom since she was eight weeks old, said
she knew the animal was special when she was a calf.
After learning the cow could not bear a calf, Hanson
decided to keep her as a pet instead of sending Blosom to slaughter, RRStar.com
reported.
Blosom was born to two normal sized cows and was at her
tallest when she was eight years old, Hanson told Guinness World Records.
“Blosom is the pride of the farm,” Hanson said in an
interview last year. “I love to share her with my guests and she loves to greet
them.
Many of my guests come from the city, and to have a cow
officially greet them adds to the ambiance of the farm.”
Hanson said she sought the record after veterinarians, the
cow's foot trimmer and her father constantly noted Blosom's large size.
At the end of May 2014, family and friends began
documenting Blosom's large size through photos and videos. Her official
measurements were taken by a vet from Orangeville Animal Health Service.
In October 2014, Patty and Blosom posed for their official
Guinness World Records photo.
Blosom will appear in the 2016 edition of the Guinness
World Records book which will be out in September.
Last week, Hanson also shared news on Facebook that PETA
had extended condolences following Blosom's passing, and that a gold leaf would
be added to their Tree of life memorial at its national headquarters in
Richmond, Virginia.
Following the news Hanson wrote on Facebook: “I am very
proud of Blosom, and thrilled that PETA views her worthy of this huge honor and
recognition! Her memory lives on”.
Hanson said she cannot wait for its release and that she
misses Blosom 'terribly'.
“I will cherish our memories forever,” she said. “I am
excited for the world to meet Blosom in the 2016 edition, but I know it will be
very bittersweet.” She said.
The previous title holder for the tallest cow ever was a
6-foot-2 Holstein-Durham cross called Mount Katahdin who held the title from
1906-1910.
Baker County, Florida - A family of farmers are shocked
after their cow gave birth to a two-headed calf.
The calf's name is Annabel and she was born Monday in the
middle of a field on the Crews family farm.
Carolyn Crews says she comes out to feed the two-headed calf
at least four times a day.
"It was just like a surprise because no one has even
seen anything like this around here," said Crews.
Or really anywhere, for that matter. A birth like this
happens every one in 400 million times.
Annabel has four eyes, two mouths, two noses and two ears
and two heads.
"I don't think it was meant to be for something like
this to live. You know, I don't think she's going to make it," said Crews.
She says they've reached out to a veterinarian, but the
doctor said there is nothing he can do.
"She might have pneumonia...I mean there is no
telling," said Crews.
Her heavy breaths are worrisome and her head is too heavy
for her body. She cannot walk, which means she cannot feed from mother.
However, she is unique, something the Crews family and many in Baker county say
they won't forget.
"I never dreamed of such a thing happening. It'll be
something that we probably never seen in our lifetime," said Crews.
A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo. "DNA tests will be done on tissue samples from the three bull calves and the one heifer calf to satisfy those who may question the births from one mother." said Jimmy Barling. "We knew she was pregnant, but we didn't know she was going to do this," the 76-year-old Barling said. "This was a shock." Barling's wife, Dora Rumsey-Barling, owns the couple's 20 cattle outside of DeKalb, near the Arkansas and Oklahoma borders. Rumsey-Barling's granddaughter named the four black calves Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo, Barling said. A local veterinarian, Mike Baird, called the March 16 births "extremely rare." He said the odds of four live births from one cow are 1 in 11.2 million. Baird knows the couple well and is nearly certain the four came from one mother, rather than a nearby cow perhaps birthing one or two and then moving along so that it appeared the four came from the Barling's cow. "In the interest of science and the animal world, it's one of those things that need to be verified beyond a shadow of a doubt," he said. The couple watched the birth of the fourth calf after going to check on her when they saw buzzards circling above a field. Because the mother cow is unable to nurse all four calves, the couple are relying on neighbors to help. Moo has stayed with her mother, while Eeny, Meeny and Miny are with two different caretakers. Meeny is the smallest of the calves, weighing in at about 25 pounds. A typical healthy birth weight for a calf is 75 pounds. Standing has also been difficult for some of the quadruplets.
Blosom, a 6-foot-4-inch Holstein, has been named the world's tallest cow by Guinness World Records. "She's huge," Lynne Acebey, a veterinarian at the Orangeville (Ill.) Animal Health Service told USA Today Network. Acebey took Blosom's official measurements for the record. Blosom is about a foot taller than the average female Holstein, according to Acebey. "She loves her oats and she loves to hang out on the pasture," Acebey said, calling the cow a "big, gentle giant." Blosom's owner, Patty Hanson, got the animal as a calf and has kept her as a pet. The cow is now 13-years-old and weighs 2,000 pounds. "I told my dad years ago that Blosom was destined for stardom, and with this record she has achieved that," Hanson told the Associated Press. Guinness World Records sent Hanson an official confirmation of Blosom's record in August and the company sent photographers this week to take the animal's photo. The milestone will be included in the 2016 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Milk it for all it's worth, Blosom.
